Jubilee Margaret Walker Quotes

I'd rather make a good run than a bad stand.

it's what makes you grow up to have younguns and be a sho-nuff mammy all your own ... . A man ain't but trouble, just breath and britches and trouble

Keeping hatred inside makes you git mean and evil inside. We supposen to love everybody like God loves us. And when you forgives you feels sorry for the one what hurt you, you returns love for hate, and good for evil. And that stretches your heart and makes you bigger inside with a bigger heart so's you can love everybody when your heart is big enough. Your chest gets broad like this, and you can lick the world with a loving heart! Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor. Folks with a loving heart don't never need no doctor.

She had to find a way to lift them together. The only thing she had was a moan. And she moaned. That moan would become a Spiritual; that Spiritual would become Jazz; which would become Blues then Rhythm and Blues then Rap. That moan would define not only a people but the nation to which they were sailing. That moan would make those people decide that they should, that they could, live.

When we think of Space, when we begin to understand the Martian, we know we must send a black woman on that ship. She is the one who will weather the journey; she will find a song. When she arrives on Mars she will be the one who will greet the life form

(Margaret Walker) ....1964 sonbaharında nihayet Jubilee'ye geri dönmeyi başardı, hızla çalıştı, sona yaklaştıkça giderek daha uzun saatlerini yazmaya ayırdı. Sonraki yılın ilkbaharında Walker 'sabah yediden on bire kadar çalıştıktan sonra öğle yemeği için ara veriyordum.' diye anlatıyordu. Ardından 'daktilonun başına geri dönüyor, akşam yemeğine ya da dörtteki çay molasına kadar devam ediyor, yemekten sonra a gece on bire kadar yazıyordum. Kendimi fiziksel sınırlarımın en sonuna kadar zorluyordum.' (s.276)

The people learned to believe that to take pain is more honorable than the evil to inflict it.